The most interesting pieces of pop music trivia that you know (that are 100% false)

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U2's album titles from 1980 to 1985 were meant to be pieced together and read as a telegram of sorts. In no particular order, it reads:
War. Wide Awake In America. Boy. Under A Blood Red Sky. The Unforgettable Fire. October.

― rahree, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Walt Disney Records plans to release the debut album of female hip-hop artist by the name of Spize D'Knut. It is rumored that that all songs contain explicit lyrics referring to violence, drugs, and hardcore sex. No word if the album will be released with the "Parental Advisory - Explicit Content." Sample of some of the lyrics from "Kickin It Dre Style": "WDR, muthaf**ka! / I got a gat in yo back, fool / I'm all wet and I ain't changing the rules / It's in excess, so you betta repress / I make you feel like yer forty fourth test /

― rahree, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Eric Harris, drummer for the Olivia Tremor Control, used to be in Journey.

― elfControlS, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Bright Eyes' father was the construction worker in The Village People. His mother was the indian dude.

― Fethen Feth, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

#662. The Olivia Tremor Control never recovered after their drummer Eric Harris gunned down a dozen teenagers at Columbine High School and then took his own life; after attempting to replace him with a Casio VL-1, a Boss DR-660 and a scratch DJ, they broke up.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

#663. M's "Pop Music" was the first acid house song.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

#664. Public Enemy's dancers/bodyguards the S1Ws were originally named the SW1s, because they bought their uniforms at Harrod's (during the UK tour that would be recorded on Nation Of Millions). The name S1Ws was a typo which stuck after Chuck D. noticed that it looked and rhymed better. Incidentally, Flavor Flav picked up an alarm clock in the same shopping expedition.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

#665. Michael Jackson used a foot double for the Billy Jean video because the UV lighting they were using on the sidewalk exacerbated his vitiligo.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

666. Mark E. Smith is actually not as hateful as many have been led to believe. His hobbies include knitting, woodcutting, and crying softly to Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On."

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

667. Iggy Pop never golfs unless the air temperature is greater than 27 degrees Celsius. Alice Cooper won't hit the links unless the air temperature is less than 18 degrees. Hence, they have never golfed together, despite years of planning and convincing on each man's part to try to get the other to change his habits.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

#668. Roni Size (real name Ronit Seizman) was originally a psy-trance DJ from Israel.

― acb (acb), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

During the twenty-five years of the band's existence, there have been three Chas's and seventeen Daves. It is generally agreed that the period of 1995-1996, which had Chas II (Irving Wanamaker) and Dave IX (Mary Proudfoot, ex of The Incredible String Band), was the most creative and artistically successful in Chas and Dave's history, although the solitary album of that time ("Epiphany Of The Dawn") failed to chart. Two singles from Epiphany, "Consciousness In Fractal Time" and "Bare, Broken, Bleeding, Alive" made it to 75 and 71 of the Top 100, with "Consciousness..." being most notable for the first use of generative music (qv Eno) within a cockney ragtime framework.

― Dirk Whitesox, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

The Cure's Robert Smith has not cut his toenails in 15 years & is only able to wear one metre long circus clown's shoes. He is rarely seen in public these days.

― Barnie Prosley, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Eno produced the Berlin trilogy.

― Jack L., Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

672. Beck was the little kid on Silver Spoons

― richard wood johnson, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

Before AC/DC asked him to join the band, Brian Johnson served with the SAS in Northern Ireland. Though never confirmed, it is said that he holds the province record of seventeen kills as a sniper.

― tefnal, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

DJ/producer Diplo never finished high school. he's currently studying for his GED and if he passes, he say he'll change his name to Diploma.

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Andre 3000's uncle did the set design for the film Boxing Helena starring Julian Sands and Sherilyn Fenn.

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

A friend of mine who has no idea that I visit this board -- and who I had no idea visited it herself -- just forwarded me this thread. I feel like I've been pina-colada'd.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

676. Daddy Yankee's next album is going to be a Duke Ellington tribute entitled "In a Reggaeton"

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

Adam Ant used to be called Vehem Ent

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

He also has identical triplets named Defend, Milit, and Lieuten. The three of them have set up their own shoeshine business, imaginatively named 'The Ant Brothers Shoeshine Emporium'. They are currently engaged in litigation over the lack of apostrophe.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

679. Brandon Flowers first got his break into showbusiness playing a chess club member during the "Fergus invents a computer that can write poetry" episode of Clarrisa Explains All.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

Beverley Craven appeared in every episode of Ask Aspel, requesting to see the same clip every week - that time the elephant p00ped on the floor in Blue Peter.

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

Noel Gallagher, later to shoot to fame as one-half of nineties power ballad duo Status Quo, was offered his first big break as a child star in the mid-70s when he was given the role of 'Morph' in Tony Hart's kids art programme 'Take Heart'. Unfortunately these scenes were poorly recieved and after two episodes he was replaced by animated plasticine.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Jandek recently appeared as a contestant on The Weakest Link.

― Hopkin, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

683. Before "O Canada" became the official national anthem for Canada in 1980, "The Hockey Song" by Stompin' Tom Connors had been the official anthem since 1975.

684. Maynard James Keenan of Tool became so obesessed with wearing wigs on stage that he had all his pubic hair laser removed, and owns a "pubic wig" collection of 87 pieces of varying lengths and colours.

685. James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins was genetically created in a lab. The DNA is his hair follicles is actually female.

― Evo, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

127. In a disused warehouse on the outskirts of Hilversum, 75 people are still dancing to "Poing" by the Rotterdam Termination Squad.

I only just noticed this one!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

686. "Wang Chung" is the only new wave song which is not about masturbation.

― casey (t. fiend), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

687. Slint were originally formed in Oban, Scotland in 1984 out of irritation at local covers bands who played 'Teenage Kicks' too quickly. Their grand plan was to cover it at half the speed, before moving on to their own, Rezillos-esque compositions. This plan was swiftly abandoned during their first gig, however, when instead of changing chords during 'Teenage Kicks'' intro David Pajo fell asleep instead. And then someone hit him with a brick.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

688. Between March and May 1993, at the height of his fame, Shabba Ranks fired 64 separate bass players, only three of which had ever actually worked for him.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 13 October 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

689. Roots Manuva was originally the 6th member of mid-90's R&B boyband MN8, though they only found success once slimming down to a four piece. No-one especially knows or cares what happened to the fifth member.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

690. Lars Ulrich has the largest private collection of early primate skeletons on earth.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

691. The character "Trent" on the show Daria was based on pre-Wallflowers fame Jakob Dylan, who dated one the writers after high school.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

see, that last one sounds real, though

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Thursday, 13 October 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

692: The lyrics to Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise" predicted Universal's purchase of Def Jam parent PolyGram some eight years before it happened.

― acb (acb), Thursday, 13 October 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

693. Frannie from Travis took up singing/songwriting after being fired from his resident DJ slot popular Glasgow West End nightspot Cleopatra's for playing 4 hours of Happy Hardcore on grab-a-granny night.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Now that one is true, I read it in Billy Sloan's column and it's above the bar in The Horseshoe.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 13 October 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Those four hours were the happiest of my life

― JohnFoxxsJuno, Thursday, 13 October 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

694. The rock band KISS was formed as part of a Welfare to Work scheme to rehabilitate porn stars. Gene Simmons is actually Ron Jeremy, Ace Frehley is Linda Lovelace, Peter Criss has been played by 3 actors including Tracii Lords and is currently being played by Seymour Butt's cousin.

695. Jarvis Cocker's first job was shelling peas for the Jolly Green Giant.

― Avid Fan, Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

696. Joe Cocker is not Jarvis Cocker's uncle, as widely believed, but his father.

― acb (acb), Thursday, 13 October 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

697. Contrary to popular belief the Sugababes are not actually babes, but early gigs performing as the Suga-munters were poorly attended, prompting a name change.

698. PJ Harvey is so called because she wore nothing but her pajamas up until the age of 16.

― Avid Fan, Thursday, 13 October 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

699. Will Forte, best known as the Falconer from Saturday Night Live, is the son of origonal Kraftwerk member Florian Schneider.

700. The Reverend Horton Heat is actually Jewish.

701. Former Faith No More and Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton lives in the foremer residence of director Roman Polanski and actress Sharron Tate, the sight of the infamous Manson Family slayings. Patton only discovered this after viewing the E! True Hollywood Story about Tate, and goes around acting like he knew about it the whole time.

702. Tom Petty was first approched to be the salesman for what would later become the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine. To this day, every time Petty eats a hamburger, he sheds a single tear in lament.

― Doug Fisher (Infamous Amos), Thursday, 13 October 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

My mom used to hang out with the original members of Thin Lizzy in Ireland during the 70's. The song Whiskey In The Jar was originally titled "That Slut-Whore Drank All The Whiskey Out Of My Jar Which I Was Saving For A Special Occasion, Maybe My Cousin's Wedding" but was later shortened.

― The W, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

The Macarena was originally penned by Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo in the fall of 1995. Los Del Rio rode it to the top of the charts by creating a dance based upon real surveilance footage of the Notorious B.I.G. inside a McDonald's in Aplington Iowa after he became the 45 billionth customer served.

― Rob McDougall, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

704. Bruce Springsteen was originally slotted for the title role in the sitcom: Who's the Boss?

705. Supertramp is an amalgamation of 80's Funk legend Ultimate and out of work late 70s band Filthy Slut. The amalgamated band name did not test well, and they cleaned it up as a result.

706. Lou Reed currently subsists off a diet of heroin and the Stroke's settlement cheques.

707. Sonic Youth have fans.

708. Roger Water's biggest argument with Pink Floyd had never been aboot royalties, but rather that they ordered a sandwich tray with mustard, after he specifically asked them not to, in 1974.

709. Billy Joel stole Piano Man, word for word, from an actual Piano Man, who was allegedly "really on that night." The Pianist's body was found in South Central Miami in 1973, days before the CD was released.

710. John threw a candy bar wrapper to the ground after getting out of his limo December 8, 1980. Moments later, he was shot to death. Instant Karma killed John Lennon.

― Lazy Guy, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

Wow, those are real groaners.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

Proper apostrophe usage might make them 1.8% funnier though.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

I liked 704!

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Me too -- the first 703 times I heard it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

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